Biothreats are real and warrant study

jane2007 submitted, created time 7 months 1 week (news-service.stanford.edu)

The biological arsenal that could be used for harm against humanity has an almost limitless supply of weaponry, thanks to nature's own talent for creating infectious agents of destruction. So biothreats aren't new, but they are real and warrant study.

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Black Death is still nearby

DanyC submitted, created time 10 months 2 weeks (www.theregister.co.uk)

"Although the number of human cases of plague is relatively low, it would be a mistake to overlook its threat to humanity, because of the disease's inherent communicability, rapid spread, rapid clinical course, and high mortality if left untreated."
Now,infected fleas may still anywhere.We should care about environment nearby, daily food and ourselves.

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Mutation Fired Outbreak of Deadly Tropical Virus

NEJM Image Challenge

Cindy submitted, created time 1 year 3 months (image-challenge.nejm.org)

Do you know these disease?

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Double protection doesn't improve HIV prevention

DanyC submitted, created time 1 year 4 months (www.reutershealth.com)

For prevention of HIV infection, there's no advantage to using a diaphragm as well as a condom during sex, according to investigators hoping for an effective female-controlled method of avoiding AIDS.

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Research suggests fitness reduces inflammation

bianjie submitted, created time 1 year 4 months (www.news.uiuc.edu)

A number of studies have suggested that regular exercise reduces inflammation -- a condition that is predictive of cardiovascular and other diseases, such as diabetes. If such a link exists, the nature of the relationship is by no means fully understood. A recent study by researchers at the University of Illinois provides new evidence that may help explain some of the underlying biological mechanisms that take place as the result of regular exercise.

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Discovering multiple transcripts of human hepatocytes using massively parallel signature sequencing (MPSS)

captainclaw submitted, created time 1 year 4 months (www.biomedcentral.com)

"Apart from a large number of protein-coding genes, some of the antisense transcripts expressed in hepatocytes could play important roles in transcriptional interference via a cis-/trans-regulation mechanism. Their result proved a comprehensively transcriptomic atlas of human hepatocytes using MPSS technique, which could be served as an available resource for an in-depth understanding of human liver biology and diseases."

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South Africa must raise wages to fight AIDS

annatto submitted, created time 1 year 5 months (www.reutershealth.com)

South Africa will not be able to halt the spread of HIV/AIDS unless it increases wages for government health care workers and other public servants, the head of a leading HIV/AIDS advocacy group said on Wednesday.In a presentation at the third South African AIDS conference, Siphokazi Mthathi, general secretary of the Treatment Action Campaign, warned that discontent in the public sector threatened to undermine the government's plan to expand the availability of life-saving AIDS drugs and other treatments to hundreds of thousands of HIV-positive people

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Top 10 Mysterious Diseases

penguin submitted, created time 1 year 6 months (www.livescience.com)

How many disease you know? Morgellons Disease; Chronic Fatigue Syndrome; Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease; Schizophrenia; Autoimmune Disorders; Pica; Avian Flu; The Common Cold; Alzheimer's Disease; AIDS.

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Stem Cell Research Coming to A New Tomorrow

saury submitted, created time 1 year 7 months (www.intelihealth.com)

One argument for stem cell research is that it might generate fresh replacement cells for those destroyed by such horrific diseases as ALS, the paralyzing nervous system disorder popularly known as Lou Gehrig's disease.

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